Three Frontiers : Family, Land, and Society in the American West, 1850–1900

Name: Three Frontiers
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521434997
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ISBN: 9780521434997

by Dean L. May

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Format Hardback

Book Series Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modern History

ISBN-10 0521434998

ISBN-13 9780521434997

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Aug 26th, 1994

Print length 324 Pages

Weight 640 grams

Dimensions 23.60 x 15.80 x 2.50 cms

Product Classification: 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899 History of the Americas Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 History History of the Americas

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This book explores the changing values and aspirations of settlers in the American Far West by comparing the groups who settled in the Willamette Valley in the 1840s, the Utah Valley in the 1850s, and the Boise Valley in the 1860s.

This book explores the values and aspirations of early settlers in the American Far West. It compares those who settled in the Willamette Valley in the 1840s, the Utah Valley in the 1850s, and the Boise Valley in the 1860s. The Oregon and Utah settlers tried with differing degrees of success to resist the modernizing trends represented by Idaho, but ultimately adopted their individualistic, commercial, and acquisitive values. How did Americans move away from a culture centering on family and kin and from attitudes that valued and protected the land, not for its commercial worth, but as the base of support for future generations? What led to the present tendency to pursue individual pleasure and material well-being at the expense of communal and broader societal well-being? These two questions are central to this comparative study of the three groups who pioneered the Western frontier.

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